Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-10-20
DAKOTA ITEMS.

Watertown talks of the Wheat Pal
ace for next year.
The News denies that typhoid fever
is epidemic at Aberdeen.
The cornerstone OF the new city hall
at Yankton was laid Monday.
The Sioux Falls Press has changed
its daily to a siX-celnmn folio.
Thomas Mcconnell, of the Carthage
Home. has returned from Kansas.
Mrs. Ribbon, of Bismarck, died last
week at the advanced age of 102 years.
The Young men of Pierre are endeav-
oring to organize a battery of artillery.
A potato weighing five pounds and
four ounces is on exhibition at Dead
wood.
A term of court will begin in Sanborn
county November l, Judge Trip pre-
siding.
Specimens of stone from the Sioux
Falls quarries have been on exhibition
in Europe.
There are seventy-five students in
attendance at the Methodist university
at Mitchell.
Several Russians in Bon Homme
county are said to have made fortunes
raising sheep.
The Redfield roller mill is now run
ming night and day, making $50 barrels
of flour daily.
Repsrts from Pierre are to the effect
that the vote on local option will be ex-
ceedingly close.
9anktoRs has in expectancy beet
sugar factory, the plant to cost up
wards OF 100000.
The incandesent electric light has
been tested in Sioux Falls and found to
work Ikea charm.
The banks at Y Yankton report greatly
increased business activity since the
crop began to move.
EXcursionists from the east in par
| WIZ VI iSN Va lholC tllO SohlihS luCO
Dakota quite frequently this fall.
The Black Hills NJ. L. college is to be
located at Hot Springs. That town
gives the land and S1O,907 in money.
The Methodist conference of south
Dakota convened at Aberdeen, Monday,
and remains in session during the week.
The county commissioners of Coding-
ton county have purchased land bor-
dering on lake KampesKa for poor
farm.
| Farmers at Claremont hang around
the stations nights and take possession
of cars in which to ship wheat by main
fnrce.
The mountain of tin discovered near
Custer City is said to be the most ex-
tensive body of tin yet found in the
Black Hills.
The north Dakota agricultural board
reports the business of the late fair at
Grand Forks satisfactorily closed and
all premiums paid.
Col. Bannister, special agent of the
Indian department, has arrived at
Pierre to look into the urgency of open.
ing the Sioux reservation.
Three heavily laden passenger trains
reached Mitchell Wednesday night OF
last week bringing excursionists from
the east to look over Dakota.
There is said 10 be fifty car loads Of
wheat in the De Smet houses, and nc
cars are furnished. The market is vir
tualIy closed for lack of storage room
A female prisoner was liberated from
the county Jail at Huron last week, but
at her own request, she was allowed tt
go back and make the Jail her home fol
the present.
A unique sight on the streets ot
Mitchell last week was a procession O.
thirty wagons, containing every va
riety of produce, from the farm of D
, q. West, north of town.
The total bonded Indebtedness of Da
kota, according to Gov. Church's re
port, is S1,O98,8OO. This has been ex
pended in seventeen public building
which the territory now owns.
w. J. Hawks, of Buffalo, who ha,
Superintendent Graham of the North
ern Pacific arrested last week for fail
ure to furnish cars, has applied for
writ of mandamus to compel th'
Northern Pacific to furnish him cars
and he also proposes to sue the compa
ny for damages.
The prohibitionists inaugurated tn
campaign in Sioux Falls last week wit
a mass meeting at the opera house. l
Is the opinion of the best informe
politicians that prohibition will carr
in the rural precincts. The high-licens
party. however, look for majority i
i Sioux Falls of sufficient proportions t
!. overbalance the country vote.
d Louis Z. Berghoff, who was arreste
/ at CentrevilIe on the 9th ult,, an
who subsequently, escaped from an off
Ger, has been arrested again, this tim
in Chicago. Berghotf established hin
!, self in Omaha recently, and opened
;. store there. He purchased goods c
= nearly every drummer who presente
= himself, shipping the goods to othe
points as soon as received, and finall
skipping himself. Pinkerton's detective
captured him and turned him oyer
the Nebraska officers.
u AT Rapid City the abstract of title
: The property owned by the Harne
:, Peak Tin Mining company was con
: pleted Monday at the register of deed
office and turned over to the company
attorneys, Fowler & Coade. The al
stract covers $50 tin claims and require